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  • December 06, 2018
    WASHINGTON — Encouraged by mid-term election gains, gun safety advocates say there will be action in the next Congress to enact “sensible” gun safety legislation that has eluded them since the slaughter six years ago of 20 first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. “We will get a bill passed... Read More
  • December 06, 2018
    Shabad Bharara was thrilled to land an internship in U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s Hartford office in the summer of 2017. He was less enthusiastic to receive no financial compensation for his work. “The experience was great,’’ said Bharara, who lives in Morris and is now a junior majoring in communication, legal... Read More
  • December 06, 2018 — by Chris Murphy
    (CNN) – Washington is agonizingly slow at learning from its mistakes. Especially in the Middle East. Over the last decade and a half in that critical but chaotic part of the world, the United States has repeatedly witnessed the limitations of using the blunt instrument of American military force to solve complicated political, social,... Read More
  • December 05, 2018
    Washington – Sen. Chris Murphy is tussling with U.S. News and World Report over the publication’s popular college rankings, arguing that enrollment of low-income and minority students are not given enough weight. The magazine responded late Tuesday, saying it did not have the data to do what Murphy – and other Democratic senators... Read More
  • December 04, 2018
    In 1973, as President Richard M. Nixon escalated an unauthorized bombing campaign in Cambodia, Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) asked, “Does the President assert — as kings of old — that as Commander in Chief he can order American forces anywhere for any purpose that suits him?” Later that year, Congress answered... Read More
  • December 03, 2018
    As a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and a father of two young boys who attend public schools, Chris Murphy has more than a passing interest in good schools. So it came as no surprise to see Connecticut’s Democratic U.S. senator down on his hands and knees Friday, Nov. 30, despite being dressed in... Read More
  • December 02, 2018
    Yemeni-Americans living in Connecticut are asking people to put pressure on their elected representatives over U.S. involvement in Yemen’s ongoing civil war. The group was invited by Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Murphy to the Legislative Office Building in Hartford Friday to address Saudi aggression in the area that they say is made possible... Read More
  • November 30, 2018
    HARTFORD – A Waterbury woman spoke at a press conference Friday morning with U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., as part of an effort to end the ongoing civil war in Yemen. Fatimah Aulaqi launched an online fundraiser that’s raised $600,000 for relief aid for Yemenis suffering in a brutal civil war. On Friday morning, she joined Murphy,... Read More
  • November 28, 2018
    Washington – Sen. Chris Murphy scored a decisive win Wednesday in his campaign to end U.S. military involvement in Yemen, aided by his colleagues’ anger at how the Trump administration is responding to the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. On a 63-37 vote, the Senate approved moving forward a resolution sponsored by Murphy... Read More
  • November 20, 2018
    Envision Plum Island: Process to plan island’s future begins Business leaders, government, environmental groups, and other stakeholders begin process of envisioning next steps for Plum Island to find consensus as the federal government prepares it for sale Riverhead, New York – Save the Sound and The Nature Conservancy launched a... Read More
  • November 19, 2018
    For Chris Murphy, the newly re-elected junior senator from Connecticut, Yemen is a byword for the failures of American foreign policy in the Middle East. For the past three years, he has been a consistent and often lonely voice in the government for ending United States military support for Saudi Arabia’s war on its southern neighbor, which... Read More
  • November 15, 2018
    WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy introduced legislation Wednesday to strictly limit schools from physical restraining students and prohibit schools from placing students in seclusion. The “Keeping All Students Safe Act” is needed, he says, to protect students from the dangers of seclusion and restraint pointed to in a 2009... Read More
  • November 14, 2018
    WTNH - Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy want funding to protect places of worship to remain the same. Funding is currently at $60 million for FEMA's non-profit security grant program. It's expected to be at $35 million next fiscal year. The NSGP program helps nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of a terrorist attack make... Read More
  • November 08, 2018
    WTNH - Tonight, local politicians and activists are also reacting to the Thousand Oaks, California mass shooting. They say something has to be done. "When congress does effectively nothing shooting after shooting after shooting, it looks as if we are endorsing these terrible, deranged individuals who are carrying out these shootings", says Senator... Read More
  • October 22, 2018 — by Tom Connor
    The Parkland kids — the student activists and survivors of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last February that took the lives of 17 students and staff members — had been on the road all summer, championing legislation to prevent gun violence and registering young voters. Now, on a... Read More
  • October 19, 2018
    U.S. Senator Chris Murphy joined Connecticut's community colleges, their foundations and the Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) on Oct. 17 to announce the establishment of the Precision Metalforming Association Scholarship for Tunxis (TCC), Middlesex (MxCC) and Naugatuck Valley Community College (NVCC) students who are studying precision... Read More
  • October 04, 2018 — by NIKKI WENTLING
    WASHINGTON – A senator who championed legislation earlier this year to increase access to mental and behavioral health care for veterans with other-than-honorable discharges is worried the word isn’t getting out to the thousands of veterans now eligible for care they were previously denied. The Honor Our Commitment Act, approved as part... Read More
  • September 28, 2018
    Wheeler received a five-year federal grant in the amount of $2.5 million to serve families in Hartford, whose infants and children age birth to 12 have experienced trauma, and are at risk for, show early signs of, or have been diagnosed with a mental illness or Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS). This grant is only one of 10 awarded... Read More
  • September 21, 2018 — by Eliot Schiaparelli
    Connecticut is receiving over 20 million dollars in federal funding to combat the opioid epidemic. The state plans to buy 10,000 doses of Narcan. The drug, also known as Naloxone, is used in emergency situations to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal said he keeps the drug in his car in case he... Read More
  • September 07, 2018 — by Phil Hall
    U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., cited persistent race-based socioeconomic disparities as the root of his newly introduced Strength in Diversity Act, legislation that would allocate $120 million in grants to create voluntary community-driven strategies and strengthen existing endeavors designed to increase diversity in schools. The legislation... Read More

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